U.S. Marine Corps Military Reading Lists

One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U.S. Navy 1890-1990

By: George W. Baer
Paperback Edition

This is a history of how the Navy responded - in doctrine, strategy, operations, preparedness, self-awareness, and force structure - to radical changes in political circumstance, technological innovation, and national needs and expectations.

$30.00

Pershing, General of the Armies

By: Donald Smythe
Paperback Edition

The product of nearly 25 years of research, Pershing: General of the Armies remains one of the most authoritative biographies of the man known as "Black Jack."

$18.70

Savage War of Peace

By: Horne Alistair
Paperback Edition

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil.

$16.95

The Army and Vietnam

By: Andrew F. Krepinevich
Paperback Edition

There are still senior Army officials who claim that, if they had been given more men and hardware, the United States could have won the war in Vietnam. In this telling indictment of U.S. military policy in Vietnam, career Army officer and strategist, Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., argues that this is precisely this mindset that lost the war before the Army had a chance to fight it.

$21.95

The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West

By: William H. Leckie
Paperback Edition

Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West.

$16.95

The Campaigns of Napoleon

By: David G. Chandler
Hardcover Edition

Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex - an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat."

$72.50

The Enlightened Soldier

By: Charles White
Hardcover Edition

This volume explores the essence of German military professionalism as exemplified by the nineteenth century Prussian German Staff. The study focuses on the most important Prussian military reformer--Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, who in 1801 founded the Militarische Gesellschaft (Military Society) in Berlin. The Gesellschaft became the focal point for the transformation of the Prussian army from a robotic war machine into a modern fighting force that was instrumental in defeating Napolean in 1813 and in 1815. The author examines the following elements of this military society: its membership; the specifics of its agenda; the intellect, imagination, and habits of thought, reflection, and objective analysis of its members; Scharnhorst's particular contributions.

$101.95

The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States and War

By: Williamson Murray
Paperback Edition

Moving beyond the limited focus of the individual strategic theorist or the great military leader, The Making of Strategy concentrates instead on the processes by which rulers and states have formed strategy. Seventeen case studies - from the fifth century B.C. to the present - analyze through a common framework how strategists have sought to implement a coherent course of action against their adversaries. This fascinating book considers the impact of such complexities as the geographic, political, economic and technical forces that have driven the transformation of strategy since the beginning of civilization and seem likely to alter the making of strategy in the future.

$29.99

The Marine Corps' Search for a Mission, 1880-1898

By: Jack Shulimson
Hardcover Edition

Heirs to a storied past and glamorized as modern-day knights, the Marine Corps - the elite fighting force in America's military - in fact has not always been so highly regarded. As Jack Shulimson shows, only a century ago the Corps' identity and existence were much in question.

$35.00

The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

By: Stephen Ambrose
Paperback Edition

In North Africa, on the beaches of Normandy, and in the Battle of the Bulge, General Dwight David Eisenhower proved himself as one of the world's greatest military leaders.

$17.00

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